On Tuesday, the Braves celebrated the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th career home run, and the mindless debate over who is baseball's "true home run king"sprang idiotically to life. Barry Bonds "has more home runs," Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci wrote, "but true greatness and authenticity belong to Hank…»4/09/14 3:54pm 4/09/14 3:54pm

Forty years ago today, Hank Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career, surpassing Babe Ruth's mark of 714 and setting the all-time career home run record. Even with Barry Bonds having long since surpassed the record, this is one of the great moments in American sports history, more than worth marking out with special… »4/08/14 1:21pm 4/08/14 1:21pm

Fortunately for Hank Aaron, he and his wife were away when the burglary happened last weekend, and lost just "jewelry and two BMWs." (Both cars have since been recovered. Unfortunately for us, Aaron was not home to meet two burglars with a bat.) h/t to William [AJC] »7/20/13 9:30am 7/20/13 9:30am

Sorry, Bud Selig: "If you did that, you'd have to go back and change all kinds of records, and the [home run] record was very important to me," Aaron said. "It's probably the most hallowed record out there, as far as I'm concerned, but it's now in the hands of somebody else. It belongs to Barry. No matter how we look… »2/15/09 5:00pm 2/15/09 5:00pm

By now, we've all pretty much made our peace with it, though there was a little part of us today that wanted to not mention Barry Bonds until about 4 p.m., and then throw up a "holy crap, did you guys see what happened last night? We just noticed" post. We felt that would be too gimmicky, though no less gimmicky that… »8/08/07 8:58am 8/08/07 8:58am